NORTHERN INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA the very instant that he seemed doomed to destruction, and grasping its shaft before ’Kun’qus could strike again, gave his countrymen the long-sought-for opportunity. Seizing the warrior from every available quarter, they snatched from him all the native finery in which he was attired, a beautiful ceremonial wig adorned with dentalium shells, a costly breastplate, and a necklace mostly of the same material. Then, under a heavy stroke from a war- club launched on the forepart of his head, ’Kun’qus fell down never to rise again. Then, falling on his helpless body with all kinds of weapons, they made of it an unre- cognizable mass of flesh. The Carriers had now gratified their lust for vengeance. Indeed, the destruction of Chinlac was more than avenged. There the Chilcotins had set up two poles loaded with children’s bodies, while the Carriers did not return to their country before they had put up as a trophy three such poles with similarly innocent victims. Meanwhile, Khalhpan, the primary cause of ne whole trouble, had been vainly sought for by the avenging north- erners. He was absent, and did not come back until a short time after their departure. His feelings can be imagined when he came in sight of his village, now transformed into a solitude, peopled only by dogs howling around the man- gled remains of their masters. Taking with him a few of the fugitives he found gloomily prowling about the field of carnage, he set out in pursuit of the retreating Carriers. These had just forded a river at a point where a sand- bank in the middle cut it in two, and they were in the act of putting on their foot-gear again, when Khalhpan was sighted on the opposite side of the stream. Khadintel immediately advanced to meet him. “People say that you are a man, and you would fain pass yourself off as a terrible warrior,” he said, in the best 18